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Ever wondered why your Arduino wasn’t programming, only to find out that the cable doesn’t have any data conductors? Worry not, [Spencer Maroukis] has got you covered with the USB …read more Continue reading Eliminate That Pesky Power-Only USB Cable With This Cable Tester
Are you a chocolate chip cookie connoisseur? Do you want to eat more cookies than you probably should at the push of a button? Don’t worry, [Startup Chuck] has got …read more Continue reading Building a Semi-Auto Cookie Dough Gun
When faced with an FPGA, some people might use it to visualize the Mandelbrot set. Others might use it to make CPUs. But what happens if you combine the two? …read more Continue reading Compute the Mandelbrot Set With a Custom RISC-V CPU
The Mandelbrot set is — when visualized with some colors — an interesting shape with infinite detail. While the patterns are immediately obvious to the human eye, anyone who’s run …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Pico Parallel Mandelbrot Computation
Last time, I talked about racing the beam, a type of graphics used when memory was scarce. Now it’s time to step into the future with more memory and talk …read more Continue reading Game Graphics: Rasterization
We’ve covered [mitxela] in the past and if you know him, you’ll likely know him for putting the micro in microelectronics. This year, he’s at it again with his LED …read more Continue reading Spice Up Your Earrings With Microelectronics
If you’ve made a robot or played around with electronics before, you might have used a time-of-flight laser distance sensor before. More modern ones detect not just the first reflection, …read more Continue reading Turbocharge Your Transient Sensors With Math
USB-C Power Delivery has definitely made the big mess of wires a bit smaller but not all cables are created equal — some of them can handle upwards of 100 …read more Continue reading Freshening Up Google’s USB-C PD Sniffer
Sound cards used to be a big part of gaming machines in the 90s and 2000s but have largely gone extinct in the wake of powerful CPUs doing the sound …read more Continue reading PicoGUS: For All Your ISA Sound Card Needs
Some of our readers may know about Zork (and 1, 2, 3), the 1977 text adventure originally written for the PDP-10. The game has been public domain for a while …read more Continue reading Zork Zcode Interpreters Appear Out Of Nowhere